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[quote name='lefrash' timestamp='1383316255' post='2263080'] that is very useful to know. I was thinking of a ms60b to cover my 'always on' effects, but this would mean I could use it for a stomp too. ie have comp, amp sim eq and noise reduction always on, next slot as line selector and last slot as chorus. thanks for the info! [/quote] Forget the LineSel and just have the chorus as the effect showing in the window, which means you can switch it off and on with the footswitch.

Sadly went for a bit more than I bid - I've got one in black (in good nick) and I'd rather have one in walnut so I don't worry about the paint getting chipped. Silly really, as it's the backup bass, not the main one.

They'd have been cheaper when they were in stock - he's put the price up to silly numbers to dissuade people from bidding so he can keep the auction open. Of course, if someone does buy it, he's quids in

I use octave-up on both a Zoom B3 and Zoom MS60-B (the Mono Shift patch). Both seem quite reasonable.

[quote name='alembic1989' timestamp='1384462194' post='2277123'] Billy Apple...you know what you're talking about.....all these others I'm guessing have never played one...I've had mine for years and I love it. [/quote] I'd like to have a play on one. ISTM that those who own them (or at least confess to owning them) are almost all enthusiastic about them.

[quote name='Ashborygirl' timestamp='1384289362' post='2274975'] Utter, utter crap instruments with no redeeming features other than proving that some people will buy polished sh*t to be a bit different. [/quote] There are those on here who have been similarly dismissive of Ashbories.

[quote name='uncle psychosis' timestamp='1384255141' post='2274423'] "White Wedding"---as much as I like it---is an [i]interesting[/i] choice for a wedding. See also "every breath you take" and "The One I Love". [/quote] "Band of gold" gets played pretty frequently at wedding discos.

That's pretty much the intention with my bands (well, one rehearsal and it should be in) but it never happens. I suppose it depends how straightforward the song is and whether there's any defined ending to it (always a bugger, that).

Starting the auction at about half the street price for something that doesn't work and looks like it's been the victim of an incident involving Fred Dibnah seems a little on the optimistic side to me.

You can see the outline of the original neck pickup and screw holes for the corners of the bridge pickup.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1383821325' post='2269467'] Maybe I'm just jaundiced from working with too many huge businesses (particularly the global pharma brands) that conduct, incredibly well researched, scientific studies in order to gain publicity or add credence to a product claim. [/quote] You should read Ben Goldacre's book "Bad Science". In fact, everybody should.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1383692121' post='2267894'] I wondered when this would appear. It always comes up whenever anyone tries to compare the sound of different instruments. I've generally seen it on guitar forums to 'prove' that something like an Epiphone Les Paul sounds just the same as a Gibson. I think the general response, just to maintain continuity, is that if someone wrote a story about a Strad sounding better than a modern violin it wouldn't really have been much of a story and would never have been published. Of course, I know nothing about violins so who am I to say whether it was cheap piece of 'scientific' hokum published to generate publicity [/quote] So you would suggest that someone doesn't try before they buy then, and just go on the maker's name? Especially when they're spending millions of pounds? The detail of the story isn't terribly well reported in most articles on it. The players didn't have a long time with each instrument but the identity of the instruments was fairly well concealed. I suggest that you have a read of [url="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/in-play-off-between-old-and-new-violins-stradivarius-lags.html?_r=0"]http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/03/science/in-play-off-between-old-and-new-violins-stradivarius-lags.html?_r=0[/url] which is reasonably well-reported and then you can decide for yourself whether it appears to be fairly well scientifically performed. Suggesting that it may be "cheap piece of 'scientific' hokum published to generate publicity" shows only that you haven't bothered to find out anything about it.

[quote name='discreet' timestamp='1383651701' post='2266963'] [size=4]It makes me laugh when people have their car stereos way too loud. Their attitude is, 'check out what I'm into, isn't it great?'[/size] [size=4]But it's never Mozart, is it?? [/size] [/quote] I have heard someone on a Goldwing riding along to the strains of "Ride of the Valkyries". Wagner, not Mozart, but a not dissimilar principal.

[quote name='molan' timestamp='1383686699' post='2267775'] OK people, I'm now bored with this. If you genuinely believe an instrument will not change in the way it sounds (for better or worse) after being played for 50 years then I'm not going to convince you.[/quote] Of course it will sound different. Change the strings, though, and it'll be a different story.

[quote name='skej21' timestamp='1383683801' post='2267726']I'm pretty sure your argument would convince all professional concert violinists that they should ditch their Stradavarius for a Stentor Student II. I mean, they're just buying old for the sake of it anyway and the efficacy of the Strad at doing the job is neither here not there... [/quote] Perhaps with a Strad they should try before they buy, and spend a hundred times less... [url="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/02/how-many-notes-violinist-stradivarius"]http://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jan/02/how-many-notes-violinist-stradivarius[/url] (or google "blindfold comparison stradivarius")

[quote name='The Dark Lord' timestamp='1383642952' post='2266817'] Does a guitar or bass [i]really[/i] get better or sound better with age? You may get more accustomed to it and it might "fit" you better, the more you get used to it. You might also get to hone the set up of it to your taste over time. But I very much doubt if it ever sounds "better" the older it gets. I suspect it will sound the same for most of its life until the components malfunction and it then will sound worse - or different when you have to change the bits. So, in my book, it should never be worth more than the money you paid for it in the first place. [/quote] By that logic, Penny Blacks should be available at better than two to the new penny. Some instruments are no longer made, whether it's the maker going out of business or the model being dropped from the range or changed. If it's a desirable instrument (for whatever reason) then the law of supply and demand will push prices up.

[quote name='drTStingray' timestamp='1383589852' post='2266312'] You also have to remember the world went comparatively mad in the mid 70s with soaring inflation following fuel supply issues caused by politics and war. However instrument prices didn't follow that pattern as born out by the Stingray value. As Dingus said, that happened in the 80s and indeed I sold my Stingray for significantly more than I paid for it. [/quote] 70s Fenders were pretty cheap in the 80s - I bought my mid-70s P bass, which was somewhat cosmetically challenged, for somewhere around £200.

Line 6 Variax 300. Then she's got every guitar she'll ever need...

As an aide-memoire, incidentally, R = Right, Ring, Return, and Red. With a lead splitter, you should get a stereo jack to two monos, one of which will be red, the other either white or black. For stereo into two mono channels, Red is Right. For a TRS insert, Red is Return. And Red connects to the Ring.

[quote name='leftyhook' timestamp='1383329338' post='2263308'] oooOOOOooh you can afford to do that ? must be a programmer [/quote] I'm a programmer. What's "disposable income"?

It's one of Tony Tsai's more misguided instruments.

[quote name='Nick Riffed' timestamp='1382989957' post='2258915'] My understanding is that he could take a righty and just play it up the other way!! [/quote] In the documentary they mention that - just after a little clip of him playing a red right-handed Gibson SG 6-string which looked very much as if it was strung right-handed. Interesting documentary, using very high-tech ouija boards to not only contact Noel Redding and Mitch Mitchell but also to film them.

[quote name='Dad3353' timestamp='1383064141' post='2259740'] Now you're just being crochety..! ...but I take your point, so... [/quote] You're just going to keep plying us with these, aren't you?

No, I still keep an eye out but haven't found anything ridiculously cheap.